March 2011 Blog Posts (2)

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – You know the faces of winners you see on awards shows? The ones who can’t believe they really won?

They have nothing on Sophie McRoy. She turned beat red and clapped her hand over her wide-open mouth when she heard the first syncopated riffs of “Planet Shoe,” the song she had written with Anna Grace Keel and Abby Gipson.

“Let’s clap for those writers,” said Monroe Jones, as the crowd in the music room at Whitesburg Christian Academy screamed and applauded…

Just want to say, after closing out classes in two schools in the last week, I continue to be blown away! Kids are so brilliant! I’ve said it before, but they have a different agenda than we do (us adults who’ve been in the industry). They’re so freed up to say what they want, just how they want to say it. It’ s a huge honor for me to get to do this! Thank you teachers and parents!!